Aphrodite's Nightmare

Now I lay me down to sleep

Shining face on golden sheets

A cockleshell of hopes and dreams

I crest the waves in my dolphin fleet

But wait! I wake from my dreams so deep

Strange machines rumble down foreign streets

My divine heart slows and skips a beat

What is this strange world? I seek

What has ousted me from my seat

I gaze in my gold mirror and softly weep

Wrinkles, crags, and eyes so weak

Age has caught up, I can barely speak

My devotees gone, I am obsolete

I fall in despair, for the first time I am meek

But wait! A glimmer of hope for Goddesses Greek

A new revival, interests piqued

Aphrodite will reign again, cheeks

Pink with pleasure, youth and mystique

My eyes fly open again; it was all a dream.